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Bad Demons: Overcoming Your First Bad Review

Bad Demons: Overcoming Your First Bad Review No one likes to be told that the masterpiece they poured blood, sweat, and tears into is flawed. Even if you have prepared yourself for your first bad review, when it finally plants itself on your Amazon or Goodreads page, it will still sting a bit. It may leave you questioning everything about becoming a writer, or worse, cause you to give up writing altogether. But a bad review should never be the end of a story.  As all artists experience, using your God-given talents to create something you think is wonderful does not mean that everyone will find it extraordinary. In fact, no matter how much effort you've put into it, there will always be those few individuals that would rather hurl insults than offer anything of value.  Trolls, as the some call them, are just looking to draw everyone into their pits of despair. Self-absorbed hacks who's only goal is to take down authors with a swipe of a keystroke. Ignore them,...